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or decision? I request that the exact text and the persons responsible for it be sent.
(3) What measures, when, and by whom have been taken to put an end to such a clearly improper and inadmissible distribution of work.

Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars, B. Ulyanov (Lenin).

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AMENDMENTS TO THE DECREE OF THE COUNCIL OF PEOPLE'S COMMISSARS ON THE ORGANIZATION OF THE ADMINISTRATION OF POSTAL-TELEGRAPH AFFAIRS¹

[16 April 1918]

In view of this, for the purpose of renewing the administrative apparatus of the postal-telegraph department, [eliminating] the interference of local organs of power in the life of the department and subordinating their activity to the general system of the latter's work, as well as for the purpose of finally suppressing the attempts of individual groups of postal-telegraph employees to obstruct the work of renewing the department, we decree:

a) At the head of the collegium for the administration of the postal-telegraph district stands a commissar [affirmed] confirmed by the People's Commissar of Posts and Telegraphs from among the candidates presented by the regional or gubernia organ of Soviet power;

b) The remaining members of the collegium for the administration of the district are confirmed by the People's Commissar of Posts and Telegraphs from among the candidates presented by the corresponding organizations of postal-telegraph employees and the local Soviet, whereby these organizations enjoy the right of motivated protest against the candidates presented for confirmation.

§ 1 ........... The procedure for the receipt and dispatch of both postal and telegraph correspondence, the execution of budgetary appropriations, the staffing and salary schedules of employees, the hiring, dismissal, and transfer of the latter must be regulated by definite rules established for the entire department as a whole, and in these rules there must be precisely foreseen the cases when local organs of Soviet power should be involved in the decision of the aforementioned questions. Apart from these cases, any interference of local power in the activity of postal-telegraph institutions, without prior communication with the authorized persons of the department, is completely inadmissible.

¹ The word "we decree" is not given in the printed text. Ed.